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though a man be of so churlish and unsociable a nature as to loathe and shun the company of mankind, as we are told was the case with a certain timon at athens, yet even he cannot refrain from seeking some one in whose hearing he may disgorge the venom of |
it is strange the soul should never once in a man's whole life recall over any of its pure native thoughts, and those ideas it had before it borrowed anything from the body; never bring into the waking man's view any other ideas but what have a tang of |
she was probably the only thoroughly sound-conditioned, healthy, and robust young lady that ever walked the globe, and wherever she came it was spring. |
i return to my own more just and true description: |
this, i think, is already evident enough, both from the causes and foundations on which i have shown such prejudice to be based, and also from prop. xvi., and the corollary of prop. |
as tiring: gymnastic:: sophistry: legislation; |
as the terms the supposable and the opinable in preference to the phrase suggested. |
for (i) if all of them are uniform in substance, what is it that separated one from another? |
twenty seven. if a variable circle touch two fixed circles, the chord of contact passes through a fixed point on the line connecting the centres of the fixed circles. |
this self-motion he places in the mind alone, and concludes that the first principle of motion is derived from the mind. |
enemies abroad, and eagerly watched the opportunity for change and revolution at home. |
sixty. for there is in both oratory and poetry, first of all the material, then the execution. the material consists in the words, the execution in the arrangement of the words. |
further, if one body is in continuity with another, it is not moved in that but with that. on the other hand it is moved in that if it is separate. it makes no difference whether what contains is moved or not. |
their lawless act was not provoked by any action of ours: hate, not justice, inspired their decision; and even now the satisfaction which they afford us is not adequate; they will suffer by a legal sentence, not as they pretend as suppliants asking for |
since almost all our predecessors think (i) that coming-to-be is distinct from 'alteration', and (ii) that, whereas things 'alter' by change of their qualities, it is by 'association' and 'dissociation' that they come-to-be and pass-away, we must |
he sailed to velia, in south italy, and there dwelt a long time near the sea, where he enjoyed all possible quietness. |
put upon other men's words, so that even the gift of language to mankind becomes reckoned among the wrongs of nature. |
the mask of unintelligibility holds out the longest; this is only in germany, however, where it was introduced by fichte, perfected by schelling, and attained its highest climax finally in hegel, always with the happiest results. |
but because very frequently the positive idea of the action, and its moral relation, are comprehended together under one name, and the same word made use of to express both the mode or action, and its moral rectitude or obliquity: therefore the relation |
then gathering up the small remainders of the shattered regiment, he marched homewards, always removing his camp before day, and always pitching his tents after night, that he might prevent their enemies among the arcadians from taking any opportunity of |
aemilius lay still for some days, and it is said, that there were never two great armies so nigh, that enjoyed so much quiet. |
by gradual advance in this direction we come to see clearly that in plants too that is produced which is conducive to the end-leaves, e.g. grow to provide shade for the fruit. |
one hundred five. to construct a quadrilateral, similar to a given one, whose four vertices shall lie on four given lines. |
on this iris fleet as the wind went forth to carry his message. |
and if any of you believe that what we urge is expedient, but fear to act upon this belief, lest it should lead to a breach of the treaty, you must remember that on the one hand, whatever your fears, your strength will be formidable to your antagonists; |
the ground being thus flooded and the completed portion of our works submerged, the soldiers' labour was doubled. |
is continuous'). besides these, place, void, and time are thought to be necessary conditions of motion. |
thing. and yet when he blames him who says the same with himself, he blames himself; so that he must be wrong either in his first or his second assertion. |
he merits the greater praise, as he did everything to increase the power of the church and not of any private person. |
one hundred twelve ton perseon : perhaps we should read ek ton perseon , "appointed by the persians to guard the passes." |
the orator has therefore to guess the subjects on which his hearers really hold views already, and what those views are, and then must express, as general truths, these same views on these same subjects. this is one advantage of using maxims. |
we have next to show that the movement of the heaven is regular and not irregular. this applies only to the first heaven and the first movement; for the lower spheres exhibit a composition of several movements into one. |
forty. if, in the hypothesis and notation of ex. thirty four, , denote any two suffixes whose sum is less than eight, and of which is the greater, |
not the same thing as rotatory locomotion: for, when a thing merely traverses a circle, it may either proceed on its course without a break or turn back again when it has reached the same point from which it started). |
further, how can the infinite be itself any thing, unless both number and magnitude, of which it is an essential attribute, exist in that way? if they are not substances, a fortiori the infinite is not. |
(five) again, take a centre one hundred, an infinite line, ab, another infinite line at right angles to it, e, and a moving radius, four hundred. |
was able to speak, which knew how to sing in beethoven!--whatever german music came afterwards, belongs to romanticism, that is to say, to a movement which, historically considered, was still shorter, more fleeting, and more superficial than that great |
preamble on the peculiarities of all metaphysical cognition. |
the achaeans were very desirous that he should be buried there with a funeral and monument suitable to his life, but the sicyonians treated it as a calamity to them if he were interred anywhere but in their city, and prevailed with the achaeans to grant |
so that the later it is before any one comes to have those general ideas about which those maxims are; or to know the signification of those generic terms that stand for them; or to put together in his mind the ideas they stand for; the later also will it |
then minerva said, "father, wielder of the lightning, lord of cloud and storm, what mean you? would you pluck this mortal whose doom has long been decreed out of the jaws of death? do as you will, but we others shall not be of a mind with you." |
and similarly if one jumps over to past events, the same account will hold good; for this-i mean the past condition-is already present in something. everything, therefore, that will be, will be of necessity; e.g. |
there is therefore no infinite body beyond the heaven. nor again is there anything of limited extent beyond it. and so beyond the heaven there is no body at all. |
view concerning the divisibility of magnitudes. for us) the following account results from the distinctions we established at the beginning. |
so they too are inquiring whether the principle or element is one or many. |
when dionysius metathemenus asked him why he was the only person whom he did not correct, he replied, "because i have no confidence in you." |
of all time and all existence,' and of framing in our own minds the ideal of a perfect being; when we see how the human mind in all the higher religions of the world, including buddhism, notwithstanding some aberrations, has tended towards such a |
side; while, if he should attack that school which i particularly profess, he would have great assistance from those of the other philosophers. |
(compare his denial of the 'blasphemous opinion' that there are planets or wandering stars; all alike move in circles-laws.) the stars are the habitations of the souls of men, from which they come and to which they return. |
peace from god, and covenant new. whereat the heart of adam, erst so sad, greatly rejoiced; and thus his joy broke forth. o thou, who future things canst represent as present, heavenly instructer! |
is because it is an attribute, or state, or movement (since it is the number of movement) and all these things are movable (for they are all in place), and time and movement are together, both in respect of potentiality and in respect of actuality? |
two. in the demonstration of prop. vii. the contrapositive of prop. v. occurs; show where. |
--but besides this, which i know to have been imitated by some in france, when i came from that famous assembly of the estates at blois, i had a little before seen a maid in picardy, who to manifest the ardour of her promises, as also her constancy, give |
origin)-in this expectation, i say, we form to ourselves, by anticipation, the idea of a science of pure understanding and rational cognition, by means of which we may cogitate objects entirely a priori. |
but polypoetes was not sole in command, for with him was leonteus, of the race of mars, who was son of coronus, the son of caeneus. and with these there came forty ships. |
not long after, timoleon, marching up to the city of the leontines, took hicetes alive, and his son eupolemus, and euthymus, the commander of his horse, who were bound and brought to him by their own soldiers. |
there dwelt at that time in pergamus, athenodorus, surnamed cordylio, a man of high repute for his knowledge of the stoic philosophy, who was now grown old, and had always steadily refused the friendship and acquaintance of princes and great men. |
for if the time is not definite in quantity, but longer than any that can be suggested and shorter than none, then it will be possible for one and the same thing to exist for infinite time and not to exist for another infinity. |
timoleon, therefore, having thus bespoke his soldiers, took part of the parsley, and with it made himself a chaplet first, his captains and their companies all following the example of their leader. |
after what manner they think this last sun shall perish, my author knows not; but their number of this fourth change agrees with the great conjunction of stars which eight hundred and odd years ago, as astrologers suppose, produced great alterations and |
he once asked a profligate fellow for a mina; and when he put the question to him, why he asked others for an obol, and him for a mina, he said, "because i hope to get something from the others another time, but the gods alone know whether i shall ever |
and about knowledge and ignorance in general; see whether you think that any man who has knowledge ever would wish to have the choice of saying or doing more than another man who has knowledge. |
the present also is necessarily indivisible-the present, that is, not in the sense in which the word is applied to one thing in virtue of another, but in its proper and primary sense; in which sense it is inherent in all time. |
rightly holds before their eyes. the utmost that finite practical reason can effect is to be certain of this indefinite progress of one's maxims and of their steady disposition to advance. |
the physicist must have a knowledge of place, too, as well as of the infinite-namely, whether there is such a thing or not, and the manner of its existence and what it is-both because all suppose that things which exist are somewhere (the non-existent is |
rebuke me, even when i speak wisely, as though it were not well, forsooth, that one of the people should cross your will either in the field or at the council board; you would have them support you always: nevertheless i will say what i think will be |
them up. the subject therefore remaining always a unit, the relation between him and the sovereign increases with the number of the citizens. from this it follows that, the larger the state, the less the liberty. |
more stable than the other, and is heavy and compact by reason of its uniformity. |
finally, it is an empty and contradictory convention that sets up, on the one side, absolute authority, and, on the other, unlimited obedience. is it not clear that we can be under no obligation to a person from whom we have the right to exact everything? |
two. the sum of the squares on the diagonals of a quadrilateral, together with four times the square on the line joining their middle points, is equal to the sum of the squares on its sides. |
now in fire we observe a destruction of two kinds: it is destroyed by its contrary when it is quenched, and by itself when it dies out. but the effect is produced by a greater quantity upon a lesser, and the more quickly the smaller it is. |
for this it is necessary to bring into play the great force of the political community or state, of which the main instrument is law. hence arises the demand for the necessary complement to the ethics, i.e. |
the centre and the light bodies away from it. but that is the order of their distribution in our world. there is a further question, too, which might be asked. |
united as they now are with us by manners, education, and intermarriage, let them bring us their gold and their wealth rather than enjoy it in isolation. everything, senators, which we now hold to be of the highest antiquity, was once new. |
let a : b :: c : d; then ma : nb :: mc : nd. |
so must thou go again into solitude: for thou shalt yet become mellow."- |
a man is one man, not many. number on the other hand is a plurality of 'ones' and a certain quantity of them. hence number must stop at the indivisible: for 'two' and 'three' are merely derivative terms, and so with each of the other numbers. |
now the signal for their falling on was to be whenever he rose and gathered up his robe and threw it over his body; his men stood all ready armed, with their eyes intent upon him, and when the sign was given, drawing their swords and falling on with a |
this may be shown as follows. let ab be a finite magnitude, and let us suppose that it is traversed in infinite time g, and let a finite period gd of the time be taken. |
set not thine heart on soft things, thou knave, lest thou light upon the hard. |
sire is anchises, while his mother is venus. mount the chariot and let us retreat. do not, i pray you, press so furiously forward, or you may get killed." |
highest region, but 'as it may chance'. at any rate he says in his cosmogony that 'it happened to run that way at that time, but it often ran otherwise.' he tells us also that most of the parts of animals came to be by chance. |
since i began this letter, i have learnt from chartreux that two gentlemen, describing themselves as in the service of one thousand. de guise, and coming from agen, have passed near chartreux; but i was not able to ascertain which road they have taken. |
man reaches the maturity of his reasoning and mental faculties scarcely before he is eight-and-twenty; woman when she is eighteen; but hers is reason of very narrow limitations. |
timoleon made a timely expiation for his strange exploit by the tears he shed, calling to mind that it was with a fraternal hand that he had slain the tyrant; and it justly pricked his conscience that he had been necessitated to purchase the public |
nineteen. substance and accidents of little use in philosophy. |
if he has rendered the definition of the differentia, see whether the definition rendered is common to it and something else as well: e.g. |
the romans not being able to make a breach in the phalanx, one salius, a commander of the pelignians, snatched the ensign of his company and threw it amongst the enemies; on seeing which, the pelignians (as amongst the italians it is always thought the |
four. and a man who acts in this way, even if he be not able to turn out a vigorous speaker as he wishes, may still deserve to be accounted an orator, though an inferior one; but even a great orator must often also speak in the same manner in causes of |
socrates: i mean that every man is his own ruler; but perhaps you think that there is no necessity for him to rule himself; he is only required to rule others? |
but in the case of the subjects of mathematics, which are divisible and are quantities, what is the cause of their being one and holding together? |
it is the same matter, but its being is different, as that which is receptive of disease is the same as that which is receptive of health, though in being different from it, and therefore diseasedness is different from healthiness. |
the megarian or eristic spirit within us revives the question, which has been already asked and indirectly answered in the meno: 'how can a man be ignorant of that which he knows?' no answer is given to this not unanswerable question. |
have threatened them from athens, if she had become mistress of sicily, and that the overthrow of the athenians would leave them in quiet enjoyment of the supremacy over all hellas. |
he is answered that justice does good to friends and harm to enemies. but in what way good or harm? 'in making alliances with the one, and going to war with the other.' then in time of peace what is the good of justice? |
; therefore the angle oab is right, and the angle cab is right (hyp.); therefore oab is equal to cab-a part equal to the whole, which is impossible. hence the centre must be in the line ac. |
- over one, four three, three two, - over two, eight three, three, - over four, sixteen three, six, - over eight: - over one, three two, two, - over three, nine two, six, - over nine, twenty seven two, eighteen, - over twenty seven; |
if on the other hand it is asserted that all things are quality or quantity, then, whether substance exists or not, an absurdity results, if the impossible can properly be called absurd. |
however, whether there ever lived a man salmoxis, or whether he is simply a native deity of the getai, let us bid farewell to him now. |
at tarsus cyrus and his army halted for twenty days; the soldiers one refusing to advance further, since the suspicion ripened in their minds, that the expedition was in reality directed against the king; and as they insisted, they had not engaged their |
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